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130 | Our Biggest Lessons From Being On Set (Part 1)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How to Write a Great Setup and Payoff

"My week is two parts. The first part is often in writing, not often," he said. "You get to a point where you don't have a lot of time to start blowing stuff up and you've just got to fix some problems." And the second part is... Let's just call it as band-aided. I mean, we want it to not be a band-aid. But you know, sometimes you're it's a band-Aid. It is not my favorite part of the process because I really like when things are set up and paid off, right? So I guess that's my week is the set up and payoff".

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